Category Archives: Relationships

Empowering Attitudes for a Lifetime

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Empowering attitudes are ways of looking at life and the world that are both freeing and confidence building.

Narcissistic Infatuation Can Seem Like Love

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Narcissistic infatuation is a unique kind of relationship captivation that can eventually lead to addiction – addiction to a person.

Playing the Victim Goes Along with Blaming Others

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To become empowered partners in abusive relationships have to see through their manipulator’s tactics, knowing in their heart how to distinguish a victim from a victimizer.

Blaming Others Is Not a Defense but a Tactic

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Blaming others is not unconscious defense. It’s a conscious tactic to throw you on the defensive while refusing to internalize a behavioral norm.

Is Therapy for Everyone?

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Do we all need therapy? Perhaps not. Could most of us benefit from a little therapy? Probably, especially if it’s the right kind.

Labors of Love Define the Wholesome Character

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Many folks enjoy a healthy and sometimes rewarding or even fulfilling relationship with work. But for disturbed characters work is more than literally a four-letter word, especially when it benefits someone or something else.